Indoor baseball game



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U EYE INDOOR BASEBALL GAME.

Application filed April 18, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BARNEY VVALLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Indoor Baseball Games, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in game boards for playing indoor base ball and its main object is to provide a board representing a base ballfield, together with eighteen manikins or players and a spinning. top, which is designed to indicate the different moves to be made on the board.

By the use of these paraphernalia the game may be played between two contesting parties in full imitation of an outdoor base ball game including all the excitement and suspense connected therewith. For this purpose the game board represents a diamond with all bases thereon and the manikins are preferably numbered 1 to 9 for each side and colored in a different top, which has preferably eight faces on it all marked differently, indicating the clifferent chances in a base ball game, the moves of the manikins on the board will be given on the uppermost face of the top,

1 when the latter has stopped spinning.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a top plan view of the game board showing the diamond;

. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig.1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the spinning top;

Fig. 4 is a development of the side faces of the top;

Fig. 5 shows a side elevation of one of the manikins to be used;

Fig. 6 represents a score board of the general character used for base ball games.

The game board consists of a frame 10 wherein is mounted a. fiat bottom 11, on which the plan of a base ball field is marked. The frame is about thirty inches square and the outfield 12 is preferably painted green, while the infield has the base paths 13 painted light buff or clay color with the enclosed portion 14 also painted green. The bases 15, 16, 17 and 18 are Serial No. 554,883.

painted white and the entire board is preferably covered by plate glass. Along the right and left hand sides, respectively, are the dug outs 19 and 20 for the home and visiting teams and in the dug outs the nine manikins 21 for the contesting sides are .1 1

positioned in numerical order from the rear end of the field. Their respective positions are marked in the dug cuts, as at 22, and

each manikin also carries a number from 1 a The numerals 15, 16, and 17 denote the if The manikins re resentin 4? while the pitcher as usual is placed at and the batter at 31.

A spinning top shown in Figs. 3 and 4 has the general shape of a toy of this character, that is to say it has a point 32, a handle 33 and a body 34 and is preferably made'of hickory wood. A suitable size of the top is about two inches in length and the body one inch in thickness. .The latter is of octagonal cross section providing eight flat surfaces which are marked as indicated in Fig. 4. The first face 35 of the top is marked B-B which stands for Base on balls; the face 36 is marked 2B-Havhich stands for Two base hit the face 37 is marked D-P .meaning Double play; the face 38 is marked S-O which stands for Strike out; the face 39 is marked 11311 which stands for One base hit; the face 40 is marked 0-5) which means Out stealing; the face 41 is marked F-O which means Fly out, and the last face 42 is marked O-F which stands for Out at first base.

The players, as already described, are rep resented by eighteen manikins 21 of which nine represent the home team and nine the visitors team. These manikins are intended to represent the ball players and about one and onehalf inches high for a game board thirty inches by thirty inches and the manikins are made of pewter or similar material and constructed with a foot plate 43 so that they will be able to stand in the positions designed for them on the board and each of the foot plates carries a number from 1 to 9 for each team.

The game is played in the following manner: Supposing the manikins of the home team wear gray colored uniforms and the visitors team wear black uniforms, the gray colored men of the home team are positioned in the proper order on the board, that is to say, No. l on first base, as at 23; No. 2 sec- 0nd base, as at 24:; No. 3 center field, as at 28; No. a right field, as at 27; No. 5 left field, as at 29; No. 6 third base, as at 26; No. 7 short stop, as at 25; No. 8 catcher on the home plate 18, and No. 9 pitcher in the center, as at 30.

The line up of the visiting team may be as follows: Placed in a right hand dug out according to the numbers designated at 22, namely, No. 1 left field, No. 2 second base, No. 3 center field; No. 4 right field; No. 5 third base; No. 6 short stop; No. 7 first base; No. 8 catcher and No. 9 pitcher.

The manikin carrying No. 1 of the visiting team is thereupon placed as the batter, at 31, in front of the home plate 18 and the top is now spun and as soon as it has stopped spinning the indication on the uppermost face of the top is noted, and supposing the marking shows- B-B which stands for Base on balls, man No. l is moved to first base, similarly to what would take place in a regular outdoor base ball game. Man No. 2 is positioned to bat at the home plate and the top is again spun. Supposing that it registers 2B-H, which means Two base hit, man No. l is then moved from first base to third base and the batter moves to second base While man No. 3 of the visiting team is placed to hat. The top is now again spun and supposing that it registers D-P which means Double play, the batter and the man on third base are then declared out and these two men have to be removed to the dug out while man No. l of the visiting team is placed in position to bat. Again spinning the top which now might register O-F, which means Out at first base, three men will then be out and the visiting side retired. The home team is now placed in its dug out and the visitors team in the field, as already described. In this manner with the proper line up, a game can be played with the teams representing the American and National leagues or any independent team.

If during the play the top registers O-S, it is called a foul, as it indicates Out stealing, there being no one on base, this play cannot be executed for which reason it is called a foul and the first two fouls are called strikes. This also applies to D-P indicating Double play under the same circumstances.

All base runners advance, when the top registers O-F which indicates Out at first or sacrifices, when the batter is out. No base runner advances when the top registers F-O indicating Fly out. No base runnerscores from second base on a single. \Vhen the base runner is on second and top registers 2B-H indicating Two base hit, a runner scores from second.

In Fig. 6 is shown a score board of the usual type which should accompany the gameboard for marking. This shows the visitors and home team and columns for the nine innings marked in numerical order and also three columns marked R, H and E, respectively, denoting runs, hits and errors.

In addition to the score board for the innings, box scores for each team may also be provided as part of the game, having columns for At bases; Hits; Runs; Base on balls; trike out; Out steal ing, Double play; Out on first, and Fly out.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

In a base ball game apparatus, the combination with sets of marked manikins, and a spinning top adapted to indicate different plays; of a flat board, an upstanding frame around said board defining the field, and a plate glass covering the field mounted in said frame; said field having the base paths of the diamond delineated thereon and the bases represented by a different delineation on said base paths, and a dug out in said field along the right and left sides of the frame and adjacent the rear corners thereof, said dug outs having indicia corresponding to the marking of the manikins in order that the manikins may be placed in a certain order in said dug outs.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

BARNEY VVALLER. [n 5.] 

